CVE-2012-6152

EPSS 1.1%

Published: 2/6/2014Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6152

Description

The Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly validate UTF-8 data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted byte sequences.

Affected packages (1)

Debian/pidginfrom 0, < 2.10.8-1

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6152